June really was a whirlwind. I don't know how I started the month thinking that I would have all this extra time to go to exercise classes and and organize my house. Looking back I don't know what kind of drugs I was one. Most of June I felt was just running to keep up - but it was great. Since I didn't hardly post all month, I will spend some time this week catching up.
May and June are soccer season. Alice at first didn't want to play, but changed her mind at the last minute and was she ever glad she did. She loved it and I loved watching her. Alice has a very expressive face and whenever she was on the field she was either looking very determined, or smiling like crazy. It was great. She is sad it is over and excited for U10 next year, where there are try out and different tiers and they actually keep score ( which of course she does anyway)
This was taken at a game they won, where Alice got a bunch of goals. Did I mention she likes winning? This year she played on a all girls team and since it was U8, she was one of the older girls - which was very empowering for her I think. She was one of the top scorers on the team. I was never a sports girl at that age, I have deduced this from the fact that my key soccer memories include: 1. We had orange slices for snack 2. We played on a field that had lots of clover and once I found 4 leaf clover ( it may have been during a game), 3.My coach had the last name fullolove , (don't you wish that was your name?) and 4. I wanted to play defence because then I wouldn't have to run all the time. (pretty sure Alice wouldn't have wanted me on her team). So it is interesting for me to watch how much Alice likes it. I loved watching her get more aggressive going after the ball. For a girl like Alice, who tends to be a little shy and unassertive - I think it is great.
It again drove home the lesson that really, we get good at the things we like to do. When we like to do it, we work harder at it and get better. Then we like to do things we feel competent doing. It is a circle. Maybe I could have been a sports girl - if I'd have liked doing it. But then I wouldn't have found that 4 leaf clover....
For the most part, the other girls liked going to soccer too. Jackie wished she would have said yes to playing after the first week of watching Alice, but by then it was too late, so had to just focus on going all the way across the monkey bars at the park each game. ( Her technique was very spastic, and there were times when I was sure her pants were going to come all the way off, but she made it several time)Eve, of course, was dying to play and would practice with a ball of her own. Sometimes she would get a little far away from the field chasing the ball. Once a 5 year old boy was sure she was lost and was trying to ask her what her mother's name was. Eve didn't quite understand this line of questioning, she was sure it was a ploy for her ball and she was not going to let him have it without a fight. ( Eve doesn't have the same hang ups as Alice regarding assertiveness).
Those are some memories from soccer this year. A lot of the other memories involved huddling for warmth. I remember my mother saying that soccer is the coldest thing parents do. After this spring I agree with her. Here's to hoping that next year is warmer. With three girls in soccer -I may be at soccer every night of the week.
2 comments:
GOOOOO ALICE!
I think I found a four leaf clover during gym in Junior High...
As for basketball I remember doing pirouettes on the court. Glad Alice likes it, its fun to watch games.
How fun!!! I'm so impressed that Alice loves soccer so much! I tried to talk Emberly into it this spring, but she wasn't interested. We signed up for swimming but that will be the extent of this summer's sports. Alice looks like a natural, and you look like a natural soccer mom, all bundled up on the sidelines there!
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